As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

We still do. Following years of combat Schanberg wrote in The New York Times about the departure of the Americans and the coming regime change writing about the Cambodians that "it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone. Bibliography
Schanberg Sydney (1980).

He has also been the recipient of many other awards - including two George Polk awards two Overseas Press Club awards and the coveted Sigma Delta Chi prize for distinguiSydney Schanbergd journalism.